An Appreciation on the 60th Birthday of Edward Teller

Abstract

It has been said that great men have many admirers, but each also has some passionate opponents. Edward Teller surely qualifies as a great man under this criterion. The present writer is one of a large number of his close and affectionate friends, friends who admire his imagination, his human kindness, his unfailing wit, and the breadth of his interests. On the other hand, a clipping from a paper in Hungary, sent to me for this occasion, accuses him of ill will, greediness, and of a violent temper. All this in a critical review of one of his books which is, actually, “not available” there.